![]() Stern view of Intrepid
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History | |
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Name | Sérieux |
Ordered | 6 February 1738 |
Builder | René Boyer & Pierre-Blaise Coulomb, Toulon |
Laid down | 4 October 1738 |
Launched | 26 October 1740 |
Commissioned | May 1741 |
Captured | 14 May 1747, by Royal Navy |
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Name | Intrepid |
Acquired | 14 May 1747 |
Fate | Broken up, 2 August 1765 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | 64-gun third rate ship of the line |
Tons burthen | 1,286 bm |
Length |
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Beam | 12.99 m (42 ft 7 in) |
Draught | 6.50 / 6.74 m (21 ft 4 in / 22 ft 1 in) |
Depth of hold | 6.28 m (20 ft 7 in) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Complement | 460 |
Armament |
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HMS Intrepid was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, originally built in Toulon for the French Navy. She was launched in 1740, as Sérieux and fought at the Battle of Toulon before her capture by the British at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1747. After being renamed and refitted by the Royal Navy, she entered British service in late 1747. Between 1748 and 1752 she was assigned as a guard ship off the coast of Kent in south-east England.
In 1756 she joined the Mediterranean fleet and was heavily damaged at the Battle of Minorca, one of the first naval battles of the Seven Years' War, where she suffered 45 casualties. After undergoing repairs and a further refit, during which she was reduced to a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line, Intrepid rejoined the Seven Years' War, taking part in the Battle of Lagos and the Battle of Quiberon Bay in 1759. She crossed the Atlantic in 1761, and fought in the West Indies Campaign of the War, featuring in the Siege of Havana the following year. She was broken up at Chatham in 1765.